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WORKS OF FICTION

Tales from "Blackwood." Complete in Twelve Volumes,

Bound in cloth, 18s. The Volumes are sold separately, 1s. 6d., and may be had of most Booksellers, in Six Volumes, handsomely half-bound in red morocco.

CONTENTS.

VOL. I. The Glenmutchkin Railway.-Vanderdecken's Message Home.-The Floating Beacon. -Colonna the Painter.-Napoleon.-A Legend of Gibraltar.-The Iron Shroud.

VOL. II. Lazaro's Legacy.-A Story without a Tail.-Faustus and Queen Elizabeth.-How I became a Yeoman.-Devereux Hall.-The Metempsychosis-College Theatricals.

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VOL. III. A Reading Party in the Long Vacation. -Father Tom and the Pope.-La Petite Madelaine. Bob Burke's Duel with Ensign Brady. - The Headsman: A Tale of Doom.The Wearyful Woman.

VOL. IV. How I stood for the Dreepdaily Burghs.-First and Last.-The Duke's Dilemma: A Chronicle of Niesenstein. -The Old Gentleman's Teetotum.-" Woe to us when we lose the Watery Wall."-My College Friends: Charles Russell, the Gentleman Commoner.-The Magic Lay of the One-Horse Chay.

VOL. V. Adventures in Texas. -How we got possession of the Tuileries.-Captain Paton's Lament.-The Village Doctor.-A Singular Letter from Southern Africa.

VOL. VI. My Friend the Dutchman. -My College Friends-No. II.: Horace Leicester.-The Emerald Studs. -My College Friends-No. III.: Mr W. Wellington Hurst.-Christine: A Dutch Story.-The Man in the Bell.

VOL. VII. My English Acquaintance. - The Murderer's Last Night.-Narration of Certain Uncommon Things that did formerly happen to Me, Herbert Willis, B.D.-The Wags.-The Wet Wooing: A Narrative of '98.-Ben-na-Groich.

VOL. VIII. The Surveyor's Tale. By Professor Aytoun.-The Forrest-Race Romance.-Di Vasari: A Tale of Florence.-Sigismund Fatello.-The Boxes.

VOL. IX. Rosaura: A Tale of Madrid.-Adventure in the North-West Territory.-Harry Bolton's Curacy.-The Florida Pirate.-The Pandour and his Princess.-The Beauty Draught. VOL. X. Antonio di Carara -The Fatal Repast.-The Vision of Cagliostro -The First and Last Kiss.-The Smuggler's Leap.-The Haunted and the Haunters.-The Duellists.

VOL. XI. The Natolian Story-Teller.-The First and Last Crime.-John Rintoul.-Major Moss. -The Premier and his Wife.

VOL. XII. Tickler among the Thieves !-The Bridegroom of Barna.-The Involuntary Experimentalist--Lebrun's Lawsuit.-The Snowing-up of Strath Lugas.-A Few Words on Social Philosophy.

Jessie Cameron: A Highland Story. By the Lady Rachel

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The Old Bachelor in the Old Scottish Village. By Thomas

AIRD. Foolscap Octavo, 4s.

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Tara: A Mahratta Tale. By Captain Meadows Taylor.

3 vols., Post Octavo, £1, 11s. 6d.

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Tom Cringle's Log. A New Edition, with Illustrations.

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Peninsular Scenes and Sketches. By the Author of "The Student of Salamanca. Foolscap 8vo, 3s. cloth.

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Nights at Mess, Sir Frizzle Pumpkin, and other Tales. Foolscap 8vo, 3s. cloth. The Youth and Manhood of Cyril Thornton. By the Author of "Men and Manners in America." Foolscap 8vo, 4s. cloth.

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Works of Professor Wilson. Edited by his Son-in-Law,

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Recreations of Christopher North. By Professor Wilson.

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NOTES and a GLOSSARY. In Four Vols., Crown Octavo, 16s.

Tales. By Professor Wilson. Comprising "The Lights

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Essays, Critical and Imaginative. By Professor Wilson.

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Lady Lee's Widowhood. By Lieut.-Col. E. B. Hamley.

Crown Octavo, with 13 Illustrations by the Author. 6s.

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The Rector, and The Doctor's Family. Do., 4s.

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Sir Andrew Wylie.

The Entail, or the Lairds of Grippy.

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Katie Stewart: A True Story. By Mrs Oliphant. Fcap.

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Chapters on Churchyards. By Mrs Southey. Second

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The Wonder Seeker, or the History of Charles Douglas.

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Works of Samuel Warren, D.C.L. Uniform Edition, Five

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The Diary of a late Physician.

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Now and Then.

Miscellanies.

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Journal of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile. By

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